The optimal approach to design, build, operate, and maintain
buildings

With this strategic guide to building information modeling
(BIM), you’ll learn how to implement this new technology as
part of a comprehensive systems approach to the design,
construction, management, operation, maintenance, and use of
buildings. The authors, among the leading experts and
pioneers in BIM, show you how BIM supports more streamlined,
integrated, and efficient business processes throughout the life
cycle of buildings, from their initial conception through their
eventual retirement or reuse. The result is better quality
buildings, lower construction and operating costs, shorter project
turnaround times, and a higher quality of building information to
support better business decisions. Moreover, they set forth a
plan for incorporating BIM into every organization’s existing
workflows, enabling you to take full advantage of all the benefits
that BIM offers.

Everything you need to implement a BIM approach is set
forth in detail, including:

The business case for BIM, demonstrating how it can improve
collaboration, facilitate better design and construction, optimize
workflow, and help reduce risk

Guidance for meeting the challenges of BIM such as an
entrenched business culture, the proliferation of BIM tools, and
the uneven rates of BIM adoption

The “big picture” view showing how your
organization can work with business partners and fit into the
building life cycle in a BIM-enabled industry

Throughout the book, sample documents and figures help you
better understand the principles of BIM and how it works in
practice. In addition, first-hand accounts show you exactly
how adopters of BIM have gained a competitive edge.

Architects, engineers, constructors, building owners, and
facility managers can turn to this book to realize the full
potential of BIM and radically improve the way buildings are
designed, built, operated, and maintained.

Dana K. Smith, FAIA, is Executive Director of the buildingSMART
alliance, a program of the National Institute of Build-ing Sciences
(NIBS), and a Senior Analyst with Cyon Research. He is the founder
and former chair of the NIBS Facility Information Council,
developer of the U.S. National Computer Aided Design (CAD) Standard
and the National Building Information Modeling (BIM) Standard. His
efforts to advance the art and science of building have been
recognized by numerous honors and accolades, including the 1996
Federal 100 Award, the 1997 NIBS Member Award, and the 2006 CAD
Society Leadership Award.

MICHAEL TARDIF, Assoc. AIA, CSI, Hon. SDA, is Director of
Integrated Project Delivery Systems for Grunley Construction
Company in Rockville, Maryland, and a contributing editor to
AIArchitect and Construction Project Controls and BIM Report. He is
the former director of the Center for Technology and Practice
Management of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the
former project manager of the agcXML Project, an initiative funded
and executed by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC)
under the auspices of the buildingSMART alliance, one of the first
standards-development efforts to support genuine e-commerce in the
building industry.

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